Leslie Howard
Known for Acting · 48 credits
- Born
- 1893-04-03
- Died
- 1943-06-01
- Place of birth
- Forest Hill, London, England, UK
- Also known as
- Leslie Howard Steiner
Biography
Leslie Howard Steiner (3 April 1893 – 1 June 1943) was an English actor, director and producer. He wrote many stories and articles for The New York Times, The New Yorker, and Vanity Fair and was one of the biggest box-office draws and movie idols of the 1930s.
Active in both Britain and Hollywood, Howard played Ashley Wilkes in Gone with the Wind (1939). He had roles in many other films, often playing the quintessential Englishman, including Berkeley Square (1933), Of Human Bondage (1934), The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934), The Petrified Forest (1936), Pygmalion (1938), Intermezzo (1939), "Pimpernel" Smith (1941), and The First of the Few (1942). He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for Berkeley Square and Pygmalion.
Howard's World War II activities included acting and filmmaking. He helped to make anti-German propaganda and shore up support for the Allies—two years after his death the British Film Yearbook described Howard's work as "one of the most valuable facets of British propaganda". He was rumoured to have been involved with British or Allied Intelligence, sparking conspiracy theories regarding his death in 1943 when the Luftwaffe shot down BOAC Flight 777 over the Atlantic (off the coast of Cedeira, A Coruña), on which he was a passenger.
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Known For
Gone with the Wind
1939
as Ashley Wilkes
MGM Parade
1955
Glorious Technicolor
1998
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
British Agent
1934
as Stephen 'Steve' Locke
In Which We Serve
1942
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
1983
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
TV Shows (1)
Movies (47)
Gone with the Wind
1939
as Ashley Wilkes
Glorious Technicolor
1998
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
British Agent
1934
as Stephen 'Steve' Locke
In Which We Serve
1942
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
1983
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Romeo and Juliet
1936
as Romeo
"Pimpernel" Smith
1941
as Professor Horatio Smith
Five and Ten
1931
as Berry Rhodes
Of Human Bondage
1934
as Philip Carey
The Animal Kingdom
1932
as Tom
The Scarlet Pimpernel
1934
as Sir Percy Blakeney / The Scarlet Pimpernel
The First of the Few
1942
as R.J. Mitchell
The Petrified Forest: Menace in the Desert
2005
as Self (archive footage)
Intermezzo: A Love Story
1939
as Holger Brandt
The Petrified Forest
1936
as Alan Squier
49th Parallel
1941
as Philip Armstrong Scott
Smilin' Through
1932
as Sir John Carteret
The Gentle Sex
1943
as Narrator (voice)
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
1988
as Self (archive footage)
It's Love I'm After
1937
as Basil Underwood
Stand-In
1937
as Atterbury Dodd
Berkeley Square
1933
as Peter Standish
Complicated Women
2003
as Self (archive footage)
The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
1997
as Self (archive footage)
Ingrid Bergman Remembered
1996
as Self (archive footage)
Churchill and the Movie Mogul
2019
as Self (archive footage)
From the Four Corners
1941
as Himself (as A Passer-By)
Bogart: The Untold Story
1997
as Self (archive footage)
Secrets
1933
as John Carlton
Bookworms
1920
as Richard
Classic Movie Bloopers: Uncensored
2013
as Self (archive footage)
Going Hollywood: The '30s
1984
as (archive footage)
A Free Soul
1931
as Dwight Winthrop
The White Eagle
1942
as Narrator (voice)
Breakdowns of 1936
1936
as Self
Devotion
1931
as David Trent
Outward Bound
1930
as Tom Prior
Never the Twain Shall Meet
1931
as Dan
Pygmalion
1938
as Henry Higgins
Captured!
1933
as Captain Fred Allison
Master Will Shakespeare
1936
as Romeo (uncredited)
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
2007
as Self (archive footage)
The Lady Is Willing
1934
as Albert Latour
Service for Ladies
1932
as Max Tracey
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
1942
as Self (archive footage)
Melanie Remembers: Reflections by Olivia de Havilland
2004
as Himself (archive footage)
Vivien Leigh: A Delicate Balance
2000
as Self (archive footage)
About Leslie Howard
Leslie Howard Steiner (3 April 1893 – 1 June 1943) was an English actor, director and producer. He wrote many stories and articles for The New York Times, The New Yorker, and Vanity Fair and was one of the biggest box-office draws and movie idols of the 1930s. Active in both Britain and Hollywood, Howard played Ashley Wilkes in Gone with the Wind (1939). He had roles in many other films, often playing the quintessential Englishman, including Berkeley Square (1933), Of Human Bondage (1934), The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934), The Petrified Forest (19… With 48 credits spanning from 1920 to 2019, Leslie Howard has appeared in 47 films and 1 TV show.
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- Gone with the Wind (1939) — as Ashley Wilkes
- Glorious Technicolor (1998) — as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- British Agent (1934) — as Stephen 'Steve' Locke
- In Which We Serve (1942) — as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
- Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage (1983) — as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
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